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TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE- APPLICATION FILED APR. 17. 1918.

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THOMAS SIMMONS HUMANS, F IIEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERTYPE CORPORATION, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CQBIFORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPOGRAPHICAL MACHINE.

Application filed April 17, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THCMAS S. I'IOMANS, a citizen of the United States, residing at I-Iempstead, L. I., in the county of Nassau, and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Typographical Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to typographical machines of the class using character-bearing matrices and expansible spacers which, by appropriate mechanism, are assembled into line, justified, and a cast taken therefrom, the matrices and spacers being sul'Jseq-rn-mtly distributed into the magazines from which they were taken.

I-Ieretofore, it has been proposed to corn struct typographical machines of different types to contain two or more magazines, one or another of which. magazines might be brought into position for use. In such machines as heretofore proposed, the magazines and their escapements were of special construction for each particular type of ma chine, and hence any given type of machine could use only the special magazine designed for use in that particular type of machine, and thus the range of work and the useful ness of each machine was restricted. Furthermore, in such multiple or plural magaine machines as have been heretofore proposed, the general structure of the machine, and particularly the assembling and di tributing mechanisms, was especially designed. to accommodate only the special magazines for that particular type of machine, thus not only increasing greatly the cost of manufacture, but rendering it-impossible to use the magazines or magazine frames for a machine of one type in a ma chine of another type. r i

The present invention standardizes all the machines and their magazine units, whereby any one of the machines embodying the invention may interchangeably receive a single, double, or triple or other multiple magazine unit, and furthermore, each magazine unit is adapted to interchangeably receive standard magazines, and hence the range of usefulness of each machine will be limited only by the number of magazines on hand, and the facility with. which different magazines may be brought. into use will be determined by the number of magazines contained in the magazine unit with which the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented nept. 14, 1920.

Serial N0. 229,187.

machine is equipped. Obviously, either the manufacturer or the user of any machine embodying the present invention is thus enabled to easily, quickly and inexpensively convert the same from a single-magazine machine into a two or three-magazine machine, or may convert a two-magazine ma chine into a three-mag zine machine, and thereby correspondingly increase the range of use of the machine according to require ments.

To these and other ends, the invention consists in certain improvements, and comhinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of the specification. I

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of a typhographical machine constructed in accordance with the present invention, the machine being provided with a unit containing a single magazine.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the machine as shown in Fig. l.

3 is a side elevation of the upper portion of the machine, the position of the single-magazine unit being indicated by the dotted lines.

Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the singlemagazine unit mounted in the upper portion of the frame of the machine, the magazine unit being shown in operative relation to the assembling and distributing mecha nisms by the full lines and the d iitted lines indicating the position of the magazine unit when s vung into a rearwardly and downwardly inclined position for the removal of the magazine.

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. at but showing a two-magazine unit mounted in themachine; and

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Figs. 4 and 5 but showing a three-magazine unit mounted in the machine.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the several views.

The present invention is particularly applicable to typographical machines of the general class shown and described in the patent to O. Mergenthaler, No. 436,532, granted September 16, 1890, it being shown in the present instance applied to typographical machines of the construction known under the trade-name Intertype. The machine comprises, generally, a main frame 1 which supports the various mechanisms, including an assembling mechanism, which comprises the assembler entrance 2 and the es capement-actuating reeds 8 operative under the control of the keyboard 4:, a distributing mechanism, which comprises a distributer 5, which is preferably of the well-known construction embodying a bar along which the matrices are caused to travel until they reach positions opposite their respective channels of the magazine by screws, and a magazine entrance 6 which guides the matrices from the distributer into the proper channels of the magazine, the distributing mechanism being supported on the frame of the machine by the distributer bracket 7.

Standardization of the machines and their magazine units is accomplished, according to the present invention, by providing the frame ofthe machine with a pair of alined pivot bearings X and by providing the different magazine units A, A and A with pairs of alined complemental pivot bearings w, m and m respectively, the positions of the bearings X on the main frame and the bearings w, m and m on the respective units being so determined and located with respect to the assembling and dis tributingmechanisms, and the magazine or magazines accommodated by the different units that, when any one of the magazine units is mounted in the machine, the upper end of a magazine occupying an operativeposition on such unit will register properly with the distributer mechanism to enable matrices drawn from such magazine to return thereto, while the lower end of such magazine will be properly related to the as sembling mechanism, thus enabling the reeds to actuate theescapements on such magazine to deliver matrices therefrom to the assembler entrance. As shown, a pair of pivot pins as is employed to mount the desired magazine unit in the machine, thus not only enabling any one of the magazine units to be mounted easily, but also enabling any one of the magazine units so mounted to be tilted from its forwardly and downwardly inclined operative position, as shown by the full lines in Figs. 4, 5 and 6, to a 'rearwardly and'downwardly inclined position as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 4, the latter position of the magazine unit facilitating the removal or substitution of a magazine or magazines withrespect to the magazine imit, it being understood that each magazine is removable with respect to its magazine unit, and that all of the magazines are constructed alike to interchangeably fit all the magazine units. Owing to the location of the bearing axis a" with respect to the different magazine units, gravity will, in each instance, retain each unit in either of its two positions after it has been swung by hand into such position.

The single-magazine unit A (Fig. 4;) comprises a rocker frame a which is provided with the bearings a" at each side thereof and is adapted to removably receive one of the standard matrix magazines M.

The two-magazine unit A (Fig. 5} comprises a rocker frame a? which is provided with the bearing at each side thereof, and a subsidiary frame adapted to remorably receive two standard magazines M, H, and this subsidiary magazine -carrying frame is shiftable relatively to its rocker frame to move one of the magazines thereon out of operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms and to bring the other magazine thereon into operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms. Different mecluu nisms may be employed for shifting the suhsidiary frame relatively to its rocker frame, that shown corresponding to that disclosed in Letters Patent, No. 1,237,043, granted August 14, 1917, to T. S. Homans.

The three-magazine unit A (Fig. 6) comprises a rocker frame a which is provided at each side with the bearing m", and a subsidiary frame adapted to removably receive three standard magazines llf, M, 1W. This subsidiary frame is shiftable relatively to its rocker frame, whereby any one of the magazines thereon may be moved out of operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms and either of the other two magazines thereon may be brought into operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms. Different mechanisms may be employed for effecting the magazine shifting movements of this subsidiary frame relatively to its rocker frame, the mechanisms shown corre sponding to that disclosed in Letters Patent. No. 1,156,031, granted October 5, 1915, to T. S. Homans.

In each instance, in order to enable the rocker frame to be swung from an operative position to the rearward magazine-removing position and vice versa, and also to enable the subsidiary magazilie-carrying frames of the units A andv A to be shifted without causing interference between the magazine entrance 6 and any of the magazines, the magazine entrance is pivoted ut 6 on the distributor bracket 7 that it may be swung clear of the upper ends of the magazines during such movements of the magazines, the entrance being shiftable for this purpose by a handle 6". Furthermore, in order to avoid any inaccuracy in the registration of the magazine ent ance with each magazine, due to distortion of the magazine or other cause, the entrance is preferably provided with fingers 6 arranged to engage the upper side of the magazine as the entrance is brought into operative posi tion, the entrance being thus positioned by each magazine, and hence accurate registration between the entrance and each magazine is insured. The magazine entrance shown corresponds substantially with that disclosed in Letters Patent, No. 124:5,055, granted October 30, 1917, to S. E. Sperry.

The respective rocker frames of the different magazine units are arrested in their forward swinging movement by the stops d, (Z and (Z each of which is adapted to come to rest on the part 8 of the frame of the machine, in which position it is retained by gravity, thus positioning the escapements of the magazine in use in proper cooperative relation with the actuating reeds 3 and setting the lower end of such magazine in proper register with the assembler entrance, while the upper end of the magazine is set properly in operative relation with the distributing mechanism. Also, the respective rocker frames are arrested in their rearward swing to magazine-removing position by the stops 6, c and a each of which is adapted to ena part 9 on the frame of the machine and to remain in engagement therewith by gravity.

The matrix magazines, which are of standard or duplicate construction, each contain channels for the various matrices, and a row of escapements m is carried at the lower forward corner of each magazine to control the delivery ofmatrices from the respective channels thereof, these escapements being spaced and positioned to correspond with the row of escapement-actuating reeds 3 on the fixed frame of the machine. These escapements will prevent spilling of matrices from the forward ends of the magazines both during the swinging of the magazine unit from operative to inoperative position and during the shifting of the magazines on one of the plural magazine units. In order to prevent spilling of the matrices from the upper or rear end of the magazine or magazines while the respective rocker frame is tilted into its .rearwardly inclined magazine-removing position, each magazine is provided at its upper end with a shutter m and a pair of pivoted shutter controlling levers m which latter, when the magazine carryinr them is brought into operative position, cooperate and positioned on the distributer bracket arms relatively to the shutter controlling levers on the magazine or magazines on the different units that they will automatically open or close the shutter on the magazine of any one of themagazine units during the movement of such magazine into operative and inoperative positions respectively, and such actions will occur when any one of the magazine units is swung from its rear to its forward operative position about the pivot m as an axis, and also when one of the magazines on either of the plural magazine units is shifted out of operative position and another magazine on such unit is brought into operative position by movement of the subsidiary frame relatively to the rocker frame of such unit.

The present invention enables the various machines to be built in accordance with a single standardized design wherein the same mechanisms will serve for any one of the interchangeable magazine units, the bearings on the main frame and those on the different magazine units being so de termined with respect to the assembling and distributing mechanisms, which occupy fixed locations on the main frame, that the magazine on the single magazine unit or any one of the. magazines of the plural magazine units will assume correct opera" tive relations with the assembling and distributing mechanisn s when any one of such units is mounted in the machine. The in vention is of substantial value to the manufacturer, in that it enables both single and multiple-magazine machines to be produced at less cost than has been possible heretofore where different types of machines using complicated assembling and distributing mechanisms and special magazines for each particular type were required, and it is of great advantage to the user as it enables him to purchase in the first instance a machine equipped with. a one or two" magazine unit and to later increase the range of use of the machine, as conditions may demand, by merely substituting a two or three or other multhole-magazine unit upon the same machine, the machines in all instances being capable of operation with equal speed and facility.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a typographical machine having a frame and matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon, the combination of a pivot bearing on said frame, and a plurality of units of different relative capacities to contain respectively different numbers of matrix magazines and having respectively pivot bearings complemental to the pivot bearing on the frame, the hearings on said frame and units being so determined and located that any one of said units will interchangcably fit said frame and a magazine tively different numbers of matrix'magazines, and having respective pairs of alined pivot bearings complemental to the pair of pivot hearings on said frame,said bearings being'so located that any one of said units will fit upon said frame and a magazine thereon will be thereby set inoperative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms When the respective unit is swung in one direction about said bearings as an axis and will be set in a reverse magazine removing position when swung in an opposite direction.

3. In typographical machine comprising a frame having matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon, the combi nation of a pivot bearing on said frame, and a plurality of units of different relative sizes to carry respectively different numbers of magazines and having pivot bearings complemental to the bearing on the frame, the bearing 'on the frame being so determined with respect to the assembling and distributing mechanisms and the bearing on each unit being so determined with respect to the ends of a magazine in operative position thereon that said units will interchangeably fit upon said frame and will rest by gravity in a position, at one side ofs'aid bearings so that the ends of a magazine thereon will register respectively with the matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon and such unit will also rest by gravity in a reverse magazine removing position at the opposite side of said bearings.

4. In a typographical machine compris ing a frame having matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon, the combination of a pivot bearing on said frame,

- and a plurality of units of different relative capacities to carry respectively different numbers of magazines and having pivot bearings to cooperate with the bearings on the frame, the locations of the bearing on the frame and the pivot bearing of each unit being so determined that a magazine in operative position on any unit mounted in the frame will be set in operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms, and any unit mounted in the frame may be tilted from an operative position relatively to the assembling and distributing mechanisms to a reversely inclined position for removal of a magazine, and vice versa.

5. A typographical machine adapted to interchangeably receive any one of a pinrality of units of different relative capacities to contain respectively different numbers of matrix magazine's, said machine comprising a main frame having matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon, and pivot bearings in relatively fixed positions on the main frame and adapted to cor'lperate with any one of said units and thereby position such unit in the frame so that a magazine contained by said unit will be set in operative relation with the assembling and distributing mechanisms, said pivot bearings also providing an axis about which said unit may be rocked for removal of a magazine therefrom.

6. A typographical machine comprising a main frame, matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms thereon, and pivot bearings on the main frame adapted to interchangeably support any one of a plurality of units of different relative capacities to contain respectively different numbers of matrix magazines, said bearings being so located that they will position any one of said units in the machine with a magazine on such unit in operative relation with the matrix assembling and distributing mechanisms when such unit is swung in one direction, said bearings providing an axis about which such unit may be swung into a reverse magazine removing position.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS SIMMONS HUMANS.

F. G. SMALL. 

